Networks are *STUPID*. If viewers can skip commercials, who cares? More people will watch TV, so ratings will increase and that's what network wants. Why would they give a fuck about viewers skipping commercials since nobody can know that viewers skip commercials except the viewer????
If nobody wants to watch the ads, perhaps the ads are not worth watching? Now, this would be a good incentive for the advertisers to make ads worth watching!!!
Networks are *STUPID*. If viewers can skip commercials, who cares? More people will watch TV, so ratings will increase and that's what network wants. Why would they give a fuck about viewers skipping commercials since nobody can know that viewers skip commercials except the viewer????
If nobody wants to watch the ads, perhaps the ads are not worth watching? Now, this would be a good incentive for the advertisers to make ads worth watching!!!
Would I want another human being, not fully mentally developed and unable to fully grasp the implications of the actions, to be in control of that weapon. No, it is a responsibility they do not need.
You just pinpointed THE problem with the second amendment of the US constitution. Any fucking clueless moron can have a gun.
Point of order: Canada is not a democratic monarchy.
Er, have a close look at the flip side of all those coins burning your pocket. Who's face is that? Elizabeth the second, queen of England and of the United Kingdom. And whenever you do something naughty, the docket reads "The queen -vs- you"...
Canada is a social democracy
Now, that's a funny thing to hear from someone who lives under the "nonsense revolution"...
Sounds like the FBI should open a file on you too.
That wouldn't be the FBI's job, but the CIA's. Anyway, they're too screwed up to be of any importance, since I've visited the US several times since I put up that.sig...
The design of the first Soviet atomic bomb was actually identical to an American design, right down to the same number of rivets on the outer casing.
One of the funniest thing about the story of the soviet atomic bomb is that the much dreaded Lavrenti Beria (head of the KGB) was in charge, and when he was at the first test, he had brought two soviet spies that were able to see several american tests. The bomb went off beautifully, and in the totally silent bunker, Beria, stone-faced as always, simply asked the two spies if that's what an atomic bomb explosion looked like. It's only when they both said "da!" that everyone broke out and cheered...
Who said America was a Democracy? Last time I checked, it was a Republic.
A republic doesn't mean that it is or it is not democratic. Republic comes from "Res Publica", that is, the public thing, so it means to encompass all aspects of the public sphere, up to and including the State, the Government and the judiciary.
A republic can be democratic (USA, France, Ireland, Argentine) or not (Viêt-Nàm, China, Syria, Irak).
If you're looking for an antonym for republic, monarchy is the thing for you. There, the whole public sphere is concentrated in one person, the ruling monarch, as opposed to a republic, where it is diffused throughout every person.
And monarchies can also be democratic (U.K., Canada, Belgium, Spain) or not (Nepal, Morocco, Saudi Arabia).
When a train derails somewhere, the first priority is to clear-up the pile-up so other trains can go through ASAP.
Some 20 years ago, a train derailed a few trilevel autoracks near where I lived, spewing something like 20 Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Chevys all over the place. At that place, the mainline goes between several buildings so the space ios very restricted and the only way for the wreckdozers* to go to the action scene was to go OVER the spilled automobiles.
Now, that was quite a sight to see bulldozers flattening those brand new cars...
* A bulldozer fitted with a side crane that can lift the end of a railroad car and bring it back on the track.
When the server arrived, the box was waterlogged and when they pulled the server out, water actually poured out of the case. Apparently UPS had left it out in the rain at some point. ... The funny thing is that after a few days of leaving the machine out to dry, they actually tried to plug it in. Booted up just fine. I wouldn't bet on its long term reliability, but I thought that was cool.
A guy we used to deal with at a previous job told me that he was always puzzled that whenever he sent a scope to be fixed at Tektronik's, it would come back thoroughly clean inside.
So one day he asked how did they clean all the nitty-gritty details (that was 23 years ago, before digital scopes; then scopes were basically nothing but rat nests of wiring).
The Tektronix guy simply said that first, they dip it in soapy water, slosh it a bit, then rinse it in clean (demineralized) water, slosh it a bit again, then put them in the oven for three days at 75.
Later that day we find out that the hole was from a fork lift fork. The operator has shoved the fork all the way through the machine END WISE! Through around 6 heavy gauge steel panels, structular tubing, big cap banks, all the assorted mechanics in the unit, etc.
Well, most of us in IT were in a staff meeting so the secretary and a couple of the custodial staff packaged up the system for us because it had to ship that night.
You must be one of those PHBs who's always in meetings, then... No wonder it screwed up!
Some 20 years ago, in a previous life, the Big Iron department ordered several Telex tape drives for the company's Big Blue.
When the crate arrived, the driver was so adamant to have the bill of lading signed that we decided to take our time to inspect the crate. We didn't have to inspect for a long time to find a very obvious "little" defect: they simply drove a fork-lift prong through the logic boards...
Needless to say, the driver wasn't very happy not to have our autographs... It was such a masterful job that we oughta asked him for his!!!
... I just don't see Linux having much of a future on mainframes, at least not without some serious kernel improvements.
Perhaps you don't see the idea. Linux is DEFINITELY NOT an operating system for the whole mainframe (that's VM's job), but merely an operating system for the application alone.
No, engineering (supposedly) makes life easier for everyone.
Except when it comes to basic communication. Engineers are nortoriously poor communicators; that's why highway signage is too often so horribly ineffective: it's designed by engineers... Around here, you'll have direction signs installed ***RIGHT AFTER*** the exit!!!!
You're never going to get moderated up for a sentiment like that on Slashdot. Don't you know that everyone around here KNOWS that all of the MPAA are massive dicks?!
Read the bleepin' article. Neatly buried in the middle, you'll find this gem:
And on the copying and fair use front, Hemming is lobbying Congress for an Intellectual Property Use Fee to settle the quandary of responsibility for distributing copyrighted material. The proposal calls for charging ISPs a fee to compensate copyright holders.
Notice that this says "copyright holder" and not "creative artists"
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Perhaps the wave-power station is used to electrolyze water into H and O...
120 megabytes ought to be enough for everyone...
If nobody wants to watch the ads, perhaps the ads are not worth watching? Now, this would be a good incentive for the advertisers to make ads worth watching!!!
If nobody wants to watch the ads, perhaps the ads are not worth watching? Now, this would be a good incentive for the advertisers to make ads worth watching!!!
Could it be Jesus' face????
I don't think so; those morons come in their pants each time they look at her, so they'll probably be very glad...
Who's next? Brian Kerningham???
A republic can be democratic (USA, France, Ireland, Argentine) or not (Viêt-Nàm, China, Syria, Irak).
If you're looking for an antonym for republic, monarchy is the thing for you. There, the whole public sphere is concentrated in one person, the ruling monarch, as opposed to a republic, where it is diffused throughout every person.
And monarchies can also be democratic (U.K., Canada, Belgium, Spain) or not (Nepal, Morocco, Saudi Arabia).
Some 20 years ago, a train derailed a few trilevel autoracks near where I lived, spewing something like 20 Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Chevys all over the place. At that place, the mainline goes between several buildings so the space ios very restricted and the only way for the wreckdozers* to go to the action scene was to go OVER the spilled automobiles.
Now, that was quite a sight to see bulldozers flattening those brand new cars...
* A bulldozer fitted with a side crane that can lift the end of a railroad car and bring it back on the track.
So one day he asked how did they clean all the nitty-gritty details (that was 23 years ago, before digital scopes; then scopes were basically nothing but rat nests of wiring).
The Tektronix guy simply said that first, they dip it in soapy water, slosh it a bit, then rinse it in clean (demineralized) water, slosh it a bit again, then put them in the oven for three days at 75.
When the crate arrived, the driver was so adamant to have the bill of lading signed that we decided to take our time to inspect the crate. We didn't have to inspect for a long time to find a very obvious "little" defect: they simply drove a fork-lift prong through the logic boards...
Needless to say, the driver wasn't very happy not to have our autographs... It was such a masterful job that we oughta asked him for his!!!
Just do like the BOFH.